Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Montoro

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Entrance to the museum
Inside the museum

The Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Montoro (German Municipal Archaeological Museum of Montoro ) is a municipal museum in the city of Montoro in the Spanish province of Cordoba .

The museum, inaugurated on February 28, 1992, is located in the church of Santa María de la Mota in the square of the same name in the historic center of the city, where a castle used to be. The museum is divided into four collection sections:

  • mineralogy
  • paleontology
  • archeology
  • ethnology

The museum's collection includes works from prehistory, the Iberian, Roman, Visigothic and medieval times, objects of ethnological interest from the modern era, as well as rocks and minerals. The thoracata sculpture from the time of Emperor Trajan is significant .

  • Torso of a sculpture

  • Stele, found at Torre de Villaverde

  • Greek pottery finds

  • Praying girl , antique sculpture by Mateo Inurria

literature

  • José Ortiz García: Museo Arqueológica Municipal de Montoro: el posible origen visigodo de Santa María de la Mota . In: Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional . tape 35 , special no. 2017, p. 192-200 (Spanish, calameo.com ).

Web links

Commons : Museo Arqueológico de Montoro  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 38 ° 1 ′ 38.4 "  N , 4 ° 22 ′ 53"  W.